What Would You Do With One Million Dollars?

Hello and welcome...?to our weekly newsletter, where we share 3 things weekly to help you become a great FBP.

This week those 3 things are:

-?What Would You Do With One Million Dollars

-?Do You Speak French (or German or Spanish)?

- Upcoming programs and clients

And don't forget, theFBPteam is here to help you develop a highly engaged and commercially?strong?finance team that other functions want to work with.... book in a call to see if we can help.

What Would You Do With One Million Dollars?

Hypothetical question: What would you do with one million dollars?

You open your front door and there it is in a suitcase. With a note that says:

"A suitcase contains $1 million. You have 30 minutes to make an itemised list of how you would spend this on a luxury holiday"

What would you spend it on?

I am sure the excitement of the choices would drive you crazy, you could literally do just about anything you want with whoever you want.

You make your list and it has everything. You then open the suitcase to find a note that says:

"a suitcase" has $1 million in it, but this suitcase only has $1,440."?

What would you do?

You still get to take your holiday but now you need to make choices - where do you go, who do you take/not take.

And this is what people who do not manage their time very well don't do well

They don't make choices and their workload is defined by others - or they do they fun, easy and urgent stuff hoping to one day get their heads above water.

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. No more, no less.

Which means your job is to make choices around what you work on.

Make poor ones, and you don't get that time back and you don't get any more.?

Make wise ones and you find yourself focusing on the things that are important and matter - and suddenly you become way more effective.

As a test choose something you have been putting off right now. Put a time in the diary to do it in the next week.....and most importantly commit to it and do it

Do You Speak French (or German or Spanish)?

Working in finance is a pretty cool place. You get to experience all facets of the business from all different angles from the information you are exposed to

Unfortunately it's a bit like working at the UN - you need to be able to speak English, French, German, Mandarin, etc

Which can be tough when you are trying to communicate and connect across different functions.

Over the last 4 newsletters I have introduced you to some personality types. Four specifically that we categorise in our workshops using the world renowned Insights Discovery tool.

You may have gravitated to one or two, you may have thought I can't stand people who are like that.

Either way we use this tool to help form stronger connections in the teams we work with.

Stronger connections within finance and between finance and non finance. And stronger connections between people who may think differently about the world and approach it in completely distinct ways.

We do this in two ways.

The first is through self awareness - understanding how you as a person operate, what you find easy, what you find hard, and how you like to make decisions. What language you speak.

The second is through the ability to recognise how others do it (what language they speak). And most importantly how you adapt to their preferred style of communicating (how do you speak that language).?

The best analogy I can give is this. If you speak English and like speaking English and you travelled to France, would you be more effective there if you spoke English (what you like) or French (what your audience likes).

If you say English then you are always going to have communication battles. And you will never be as effective as you can.

If you said French then great. You now just have to work out what language you speak, learn to identify what others speak and adapt to them.

Click on the link below for a free Insights Discovery sample profile. And if you want a deep dive into this for you or your team just message me.

Upcoming FBP Programs & Clients

Bootcamps next week plus our latest FBP Accelerator: Essentials program.....

FBP Bootcamp (new topic!)

Tuesday 23rd April

Next week is our monthly FBP Bootcamp and this month we are going to talk Insights

Nobody really knows what Insights are and worse a lot are just providing Data thinking its insights.?

Totally free 60 minute session with me, we will help point you in the right direction in delivering Insights but then getting others to action those Insights

Signup by clicking

FBP?Accelerator: Essentials

Our flagship Essentials program is back on again for those looking to become a great Finance Business Partner

Kicking off on Wednesday 5th June we will show you some of the tools and techniques you need to be effective with other functions.

All virtually and in 4 x 2 hour workshops?

Click here to register your interest

Recent Client?Wins

This week has been a big week at the FBPteam with our single biggest day of secured work coming in.?

One of NZs largest retailers

We have been scoping out a program for one of NZs largest retailers for over 6 months and we were excited to find the news they are now keen to go ahead with our proposal.

We look forward to working alongside CAANZ in helping deliver a program?that will help lift the capability of their finance team

Large APAC Telecommunications provider?

Following a successful pilot program with the senior managers of this telecoms giant, we are excited to now be rolling out the same program with the wider team over the coming months.

We will also shortly be delivering their 360 GAP survey to show them exactly what their finance team thinks versus what their non finance colleagues think. True insight into whats happening within this great organisation.

And don't forget if your team wants to upskill just get in touch. We can customise a program that helps develop the skills your organisation needs from finance

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